Even if they actually did delete it from all their servers and backups, some of it could still have been harvested by who knows how many site grabbers and bots. And you can't delete that.
Actually that's not true. At least on Chrome, Youtube's HTML5 has true fullscreen (finally). I had been expecting them to do it since they own both Youtube and Chrome, so they can work on both sides of the equation. Now when you click the fullscreen button, the browser also goes fullscreen (as if you also hit F11). This makes HTML5 for all practical purposes equivalent to Flash, now.
The system as it stands now makes Youtube liable for uploaded videos but not liable for videos they refuse to upload. They can refuse to upload for any reason after all - hey it's their site, it's their servers. They're not a public utility after all.
But here lies a conflict of interest. Once Youtube has been forced by DMCA to set up an automated filter for UMG to use, they have no further interest in ensuring that UMG does not abuse it. Why bother scrutinize every addition to the filter by UMG? Do they gain any value from the couple of videos they might save from censorship that way? Would it be enough to pay the wages of the people they'd have to hire to watch over UMG's shoulder, and for the lawyers in case UMG tries to fight? I doubt it. So they have nothing to gain from doing it. Would they be punished because they discriminated against the little man? No, because while uploading a video that's not legit is punishable, refusal to upload a video that's legit is not. So they have nothing to lose from not doing it.
And whose fault is that? Youtube didn't come up with that automated filter on their own. They were forced to do it. Now they're in the position that if they want to protect people from censorship, they have to go out of their way, incur additional expenses, and risk bringing trouble on their heads if the labels become hostile because of it.
Of course. That's why some people buy iPhones and a lot more don't. A price in an idealized marketplace is the subjective value people attach to something when averaged out. Or, more precisely, it is the meeting point where the number of sellers willing to sell at that price equals the number of buyers willing to buy at that price (in a simplified case where each seller has exactly 1 item on stock, and each buyer wants to purchase exactly 1 item).
My understanding of intrinsic value is that it's the value you get from something even if you're forbidden to trade or exchange it. If I gave you an iPhone with the condition that you never sell it to anyone, you could still use it as a phone. If I gave you a $100 bill with the condition that you never give it to anyone else, there's not much use for it.
Gold is not fiat. Gold is jewelry, and jewelry has intrinsic value. Intrinsic value doesn't mean you can eat it btw, you can't eat an iPhone but no one would argue that it doesn't have intrinsic value.
Reminds me about all those stories of bottles put inside cars during assembly. Here's a funny one (albeit fictional):
A man goes to a car dealership one day after inheriting a good deal of money (or after a great business deal, whatever -- he has a lot of money somehow). After looking around the lot, he picks out the nicest, newest, fanciest, most expensive car he can. He pays cash up front and drives out of the dealership in the new car.
On his way home, he starts hearing a rattling sound -- something must be wrong. So he turns around and goes right back to the dealer. The dealer is of course very sorry, and offers to either fix the car or let the man take a different one while they order a replacement. The man really wants the car, so he just has the guy fix it. Two hours later, the mechanics give the car back, saying they couldn't find a thing wrong with it. The man is a bit wary, but he drives home. Whatever the rattle is, it has stopped.
A day or so later, the rattle starts again. He takes it to the dealership, and they still can't find anything wrong with it. This continues for a number of weeks -- sometimes the rattle even goes away on its own. Anyway, after nearly two months of it, the dealer is very upset -- he doesn't want to get a bad reputation. So he orders a replacement and exchanges it with the man for the malfunctional car.
Then he orders the mechanics in the shop to do a complete tear-down to figure out the problem. They begin taking the car apart, piece by piece, but they can't find anything -- until they take apart the door. Inside, they find a piece of metal pipe, along with a note. Written on the note, in a scrawling, worker's hand is: "So, you finally found the rattle, you rich son-of-a-bitch."
And it's a good job they did too. For practically everyone including Japan.
You are more right than you think.
Many people don't know that the Soviets had just declared war on Japan, and, after defeating the Kwantung army, had occupied nearly all territories held by Japan on the continent. After that they were planning to invade the Home Islands. Had the nuclear bombs not persuaded Japan to surrender at that moment, they might have been occupied by the Soviet Union. That would have had serious implications not just during the war, but after, because we would have likely had the People's Republic of Japan. What standard of living would its citizens have had?
I wouldn't have expected this level of integrity from any other company. There's been a lot of opinions floating around that Google aren't 'good guys' any more than others, but cases like this show that they really are different.
The goal of terrorism isn't the actual damage, it's to instill fear and provoke self-destructive reactions. I don't know what the direct damages caused by the terrorists were, but indirectly they caused the 2 wars, which have cost (correct me if I'm wrong) in excess of 1 trillion dollars. I seriously doubt that spammers have cost the economy 1 trillion.
It's always plans of what China will do after 10 years, 20 years, 100 years. China seems a lot bigger on plans and intentions than on things it's doing right now. It's like the hunter bragging how much game he's going to kill, or a fisherman saying he'll catch the entire lake. Well, I say why don't we wait untill after you've come back and see what you've got. Let's not put the oil in the frying pan while the bird's still in the forest.
Security is taken seriously only when threats start happening in practice, not just in theory. And for all the lack of security nothing has really happened so far. When and if ships start sinking and blowing because of viruses, security will be improved, but not until then. Same reason why people in India don't have winter coats just in case the temperatures drop to zero - which they did, once (and a lot of people died then).
And ultimately, if it's so easy to do mischief, then why has nothing happened in practice so far?
They can't use the words from old print because they don't know what it reads, so they can't know if you've answered correctly. The captcha that is used for verification is computer generated, that's why reCAPTCHA has 2 words - one is generated (hence they know what it is), and one is from old print. If you answer the computer generated captcha it's assumed that you've answered the other one as well. They also send the same old print word to 2-3 people to see if their answers match. That way Google gets a crowd-sourced human-brain-driven OCR machine for free.
That sentence really does sound a bit misleading, but I think they mean that half the people in southern and western states don't have internet at home. Besides, you can have the situation of the house having Internet, but only the kids using it.
For example, it is still quite difficult to buy a new desktop computer that has a non-Windows operating system installed
In my country, which is in Eastern Europe, nearly half of all PC and laptops sold come without Windows. They either have Ubuntu or FreeDOS installed, and they cost about $50-$100 less. This is done because a price difference of $100 means a lot to people here. Of course, people buying a Core i7 laptop running FreeDOS intend to pirate Windows, but it's perfectly legitimate for vendors to sell the laptops, because they're not the ones doing the pirating.
I own a Chinese-made mp3 player that connects to the computer through the stereo jack - it has a cable that has USB at one end and a stereo jack plug at the other. I could even use it like a USB memory stick with this cable. And it's charged through the stereo jack - the adapter ends with a stereo jack plug.
I think the stereo jack is just used as a conductor to carry electric current, both for charging and to carry information. They're doing it as a cost-cutting measure, they save-up on 2 additional ports that way. So when I read about this article I wasn't really surprised.
I meant native support for numbers. If you wrote an assembler program for this kind of processor, what would be the biggest type you can use to store integers, pointers, etc.? On 8-bit processors it was 16 bit numbers I think, which is restricting but still reasonable. If you can access at most 8 bits for pointers and native integers however, I can't imagine how this would work.
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For example, that would make it perfectly OK to declare Freud guilty of cocaine possession and consumption (which were legal in his days).
No problem. We can always retroactively make him innocent again if in the future cocaine becomes legal.
Even if they actually did delete it from all their servers and backups, some of it could still have been harvested by who knows how many site grabbers and bots. And you can't delete that.
Actually that's not true. At least on Chrome, Youtube's HTML5 has true fullscreen (finally). I had been expecting them to do it since they own both Youtube and Chrome, so they can work on both sides of the equation. Now when you click the fullscreen button, the browser also goes fullscreen (as if you also hit F11). This makes HTML5 for all practical purposes equivalent to Flash, now.
Hiring has become so ridiculous lately that the government needs to step in and freaking regulate the process! Just have a standardized process.
Sure. Let the government choose who they hire. So long as the governent then shells out the money to pay your wages, too.
Does that mean my business to open a booth selling sea water and sand by the beach is unsustainable?
The system as it stands now makes Youtube liable for uploaded videos but not liable for videos they refuse to upload. They can refuse to upload for any reason after all - hey it's their site, it's their servers. They're not a public utility after all.
But here lies a conflict of interest. Once Youtube has been forced by DMCA to set up an automated filter for UMG to use, they have no further interest in ensuring that UMG does not abuse it. Why bother scrutinize every addition to the filter by UMG? Do they gain any value from the couple of videos they might save from censorship that way? Would it be enough to pay the wages of the people they'd have to hire to watch over UMG's shoulder, and for the lawyers in case UMG tries to fight? I doubt it. So they have nothing to gain from doing it. Would they be punished because they discriminated against the little man? No, because while uploading a video that's not legit is punishable, refusal to upload a video that's legit is not. So they have nothing to lose from not doing it.
And whose fault is that? Youtube didn't come up with that automated filter on their own. They were forced to do it. Now they're in the position that if they want to protect people from censorship, they have to go out of their way, incur additional expenses, and risk bringing trouble on their heads if the labels become hostile because of it.
Of course. That's why some people buy iPhones and a lot more don't. A price in an idealized marketplace is the subjective value people attach to something when averaged out. Or, more precisely, it is the meeting point where the number of sellers willing to sell at that price equals the number of buyers willing to buy at that price (in a simplified case where each seller has exactly 1 item on stock, and each buyer wants to purchase exactly 1 item).
My understanding of intrinsic value is that it's the value you get from something even if you're forbidden to trade or exchange it. If I gave you an iPhone with the condition that you never sell it to anyone, you could still use it as a phone. If I gave you a $100 bill with the condition that you never give it to anyone else, there's not much use for it.
Gold is not fiat. Gold is jewelry, and jewelry has intrinsic value. Intrinsic value doesn't mean you can eat it btw, you can't eat an iPhone but no one would argue that it doesn't have intrinsic value.
Reminds me about all those stories of bottles put inside cars during assembly. Here's a funny one (albeit fictional):
A man goes to a car dealership one day after inheriting a good deal of money (or after a great business deal, whatever -- he has a lot of money somehow). After looking around the lot, he picks out the nicest, newest, fanciest, most expensive car he can. He pays cash up front and drives out of the dealership in the new car.
On his way home, he starts hearing a rattling sound -- something must be wrong. So he turns around and goes right back to the dealer. The dealer is of course very sorry, and offers to either fix the car or let the man take a different one while they order a replacement. The man really wants the car, so he just has the guy fix it. Two hours later, the mechanics give the car back, saying they couldn't find a thing wrong with it. The man is a bit wary, but he drives home. Whatever the rattle is, it has stopped.
A day or so later, the rattle starts again. He takes it to the dealership, and they still can't find anything wrong with it. This continues for a number of weeks -- sometimes the rattle even goes away on its own. Anyway, after nearly two months of it, the dealer is very upset -- he doesn't want to get a bad reputation. So he orders a replacement and exchanges it with the man for the malfunctional car.
Then he orders the mechanics in the shop to do a complete tear-down to figure out the problem. They begin taking the car apart, piece by piece, but they can't find anything -- until they take apart the door. Inside, they find a piece of metal pipe, along with a note. Written on the note, in a scrawling, worker's hand is: "So, you finally found the rattle, you rich son-of-a-bitch."
And it's a good job they did too. For practically everyone including Japan.
You are more right than you think.
Many people don't know that the Soviets had just declared war on Japan, and, after defeating the Kwantung army, had occupied nearly all territories held by Japan on the continent. After that they were planning to invade the Home Islands. Had the nuclear bombs not persuaded Japan to surrender at that moment, they might have been occupied by the Soviet Union. That would have had serious implications not just during the war, but after, because we would have likely had the People's Republic of Japan. What standard of living would its citizens have had?
I wouldn't have expected this level of integrity from any other company. There's been a lot of opinions floating around that Google aren't 'good guys' any more than others, but cases like this show that they really are different.
The goal of terrorism isn't the actual damage, it's to instill fear and provoke self-destructive reactions. I don't know what the direct damages caused by the terrorists were, but indirectly they caused the 2 wars, which have cost (correct me if I'm wrong) in excess of 1 trillion dollars. I seriously doubt that spammers have cost the economy 1 trillion.
The people who say 'black-bag them' probably aren't the same people who talk against Gitmo.
It's always plans of what China will do after 10 years, 20 years, 100 years. China seems a lot bigger on plans and intentions than on things it's doing right now. It's like the hunter bragging how much game he's going to kill, or a fisherman saying he'll catch the entire lake. Well, I say why don't we wait untill after you've come back and see what you've got. Let's not put the oil in the frying pan while the bird's still in the forest.
I knew it! I knew it! Those dirty insects, they've been in on this thing all along. Prolly' getting a cut of the fat profits, too.
Security is taken seriously only when threats start happening in practice, not just in theory. And for all the lack of security nothing has really happened so far. When and if ships start sinking and blowing because of viruses, security will be improved, but not until then. Same reason why people in India don't have winter coats just in case the temperatures drop to zero - which they did, once (and a lot of people died then).
And ultimately, if it's so easy to do mischief, then why has nothing happened in practice so far?
They can't use the words from old print because they don't know what it reads, so they can't know if you've answered correctly. The captcha that is used for verification is computer generated, that's why reCAPTCHA has 2 words - one is generated (hence they know what it is), and one is from old print. If you answer the computer generated captcha it's assumed that you've answered the other one as well. They also send the same old print word to 2-3 people to see if their answers match. That way Google gets a crowd-sourced human-brain-driven OCR machine for free.
That sentence really does sound a bit misleading, but I think they mean that half the people in southern and western states don't have internet at home. Besides, you can have the situation of the house having Internet, but only the kids using it.
For example, it is still quite difficult to buy a new desktop computer that has a non-Windows operating system installed
In my country, which is in Eastern Europe, nearly half of all PC and laptops sold come without Windows. They either have Ubuntu or FreeDOS installed, and they cost about $50-$100 less. This is done because a price difference of $100 means a lot to people here. Of course, people buying a Core i7 laptop running FreeDOS intend to pirate Windows, but it's perfectly legitimate for vendors to sell the laptops, because they're not the ones doing the pirating.
Earphones have already solved the audio side of the problem.
I own a Chinese-made mp3 player that connects to the computer through the stereo jack - it has a cable that has USB at one end and a stereo jack plug at the other. I could even use it like a USB memory stick with this cable. And it's charged through the stereo jack - the adapter ends with a stereo jack plug.
I think the stereo jack is just used as a conductor to carry electric current, both for charging and to carry information. They're doing it as a cost-cutting measure, they save-up on 2 additional ports that way. So when I read about this article I wasn't really surprised.
Lack of knowledge isn't what prevents most countries from building a nuclear bomb, lack of uranium and plutonium is.
I meant native support for numbers. If you wrote an assembler program for this kind of processor, what would be the biggest type you can use to store integers, pointers, etc.? On 8-bit processors it was 16 bit numbers I think, which is restricting but still reasonable. If you can access at most 8 bits for pointers and native integers however, I can't imagine how this would work.
Could it handle at least 16-bit numbers?